Working with Service Specifications

In UIM, a service represents the way that a product is realized and delivered to a customer. For example, a DSL Gold product is delivered as a DSL Gold service, enabled by appropriate resources.

You define Service specifications to record basic information about the service. You define Service Configuration specifications to record versionable sets of facts about the service. As these facts evolve over time, you can create new configuration versions. See "About Configurations" for more information.

Network-oriented services are a specialization that support multipoint and point-to-point packet connectivity. These services are part of a larger network-oriented service arrangement that includes other entities, such as networks and service locations.

For network-oriented services that support multipoint connectivity, you determine whether the service is the network service (the parent of the service arrangement) or a member service. The Network Oriented Service Type data element in the Service Specification editor includes Network and Member values for this purpose. If no value is set, the service can be a point-to-point network-oriented service or a service that is not involved with packet connectivity.

See UIM Concepts for more information about network-oriented services.

When working with Service specifications, see "Service Specification Editor" for reference information about the tabs you use to define a Service specification.